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CARNOTITE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does carnotite mean?
• CARNOTITE (noun)
The noun CARNOTITE has 1 sense:
1. a yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium
Familiarity information: CARNOTITE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A yellow radioactive mineral; an ore of uranium and radium and vanadium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting substances
Hypernyms ("carnotite" is a kind of...):
uranium ore (any ore from which uranium can be extracted)
Meronyms (substance of "carnotite"):
atomic number 23; V; vanadium (a soft silvery white toxic metallic element used in steel alloys; it occurs in several complex minerals including carnotite and vanadinite)
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